Harmonic Analysis

01 October 1986 in English and in German—a crossover of which readers should beware! 3For a more detailed structural analysis, see Siegmund Levarie and Ernst Levy, Musical Morphology: A Discourse and a Dictionary (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1983), 311-14....

Mathematic Techniques in Music History

01 October 1978 difference between music and the other sciences: it only could convey moral values. Today the acoustician and writer Siegmund Levarie finds musicologists by and large to be "instinctively afraid of numbers."15 If there is truth in what Ernest McClain...

Aesthetics, Ideology and Musical Value

01 October 1985 instrument when what is needed is the precision of a surgical knife. 1Dahlhaus, Analysis and Value Judgments, trans. Siegmund Levarie (New York: Pendragon, 1983) and Foundations of Music History, trans. J.B. Robinson (Cambridge: Cambridge University...